{"id":11463,"date":"2015-06-22T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=11463"},"modified":"2015-06-22T05:00:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T09:00:36","slug":"french-war-dogs-in-ww1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/french-war-dogs-in-ww1\/","title":{"rendered":"French War Dogs in WW1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday, June 22, 1915<\/em><\/p>\n

Reserve Billets,\u00a0Le Quesnoy<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: “On the night of June 22nd<\/sup>, 1915, the 14th<\/sup> Battalion moved forward to reserve trenches (Givenchy Sector) and there passed two quiet and uneventful days.”<\/em>\u00a0[1]<\/p>\n

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\"RMR<\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0\u201c(Special Leased Wire) \u00a0Paris, June 21 \u2013 A remarkable story of the new use to which police dogs (now called War Dogs) are put by the French came from Vosges. \u00a0An experimental squad of twenty dogs, the account says, is stationed near the front line of trenches, whence they are sent singly at night to range over the ground between the French and German lines in search of wounded French men, whom they have been trained to distinguish. \u00a0Each dog carries a small bottle of brandy tied to his body and also a light string tied to his collar. \u00a0When a wounded man is found, the man pulls the string to which a coil of rope is fastened, ties the rope around his body and is then pulled back to the French trenches. \u00a0The dogs work quite silently and so far none have been noticed by the enemy. They never assist Germans.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe French war dogs are divided into five classes, each of which performs a special type of work.\u00a0 There are sentinel dogs, patrol dogs, ambulance dogs, dispatch bearers and draught dogs.\u00a0 In all these departments of military activity they have proved their worth.\u00a0 The development of this branch of military preparedness is a recent one, for the first of the French \u2018chiens sanitaires\u2019 was trained in 1907 and took part in the grand manoeuvres of that year.\u00a0 At the outbreak of the present war there were not more than one hundred of these useful dogs thoroughly trained.\u00a0 At present there are thousands of them serving with the French troops in the field.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0[7]<\/a><\/p>\n

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[1]\u00a0 War Diary, 14th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, June 22, 1915.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa\u00a0http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089753.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n
[2]\u00a0 R.C. Featherstonhaugh, The Royal Montreal Regiment 14th<\/sup> Battalion C.E.F. 1914-1925<\/em>, Montreal, The Gazette Printing Co., Ltd., 1927, pg. 62.<\/pre>\n
[3]\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cRemarkable Work of French War Dogs,\u201d Quebec Telegraph<\/em>, Quebec, Monday, June 21, 1915, pg. 8, col. 4.<\/pre>\n
[4]\u00a0\u00a0 Ibid<\/pre>\n
[5]\u00a0\u00a0 The Illustrated London News<\/em>, Saturday, December 25, 1915, No. 400E, pg. 1.<\/pre>\n
[6]\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/sniffingthepast.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/08\/warhorses-and-dogs-of-war\/<\/a><\/pre>\n
[7]\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cDogs of Battle and Dogs of Mercy,\u201d Vanity Fair<\/em>, September 1916, pg. 75.\u00a0http:\/\/www.oldmagazinearticles.com\/WW1_dogs_pdf<\/a><\/pre>\n
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